Former EEPR Syracuse Economics PhD student Mallory Vachon, now at Louisiana State University as an Assistant Professor, is featured in the latest USAEE Dialog. Her paper titled “A Comparison of the Economic and Labor Market Impacts of Resource Extraction” can be viewed here.

Several members of the EEPR group started new positions fall 2014. Congrats to them!

Anna Ebers, a Fulbrighter from Estonia, joined the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, as a PostDoc to research investment into renewable energy sector. Her prior research interests include evaluation of public policy effectiveness in bioenergy sector, willingness to pay for solar power in Mexico, and economics of first conservation easements.

James Hacker has moved to California to work for the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, the nonpartisan fiscal and policy analyst for the state legislature. He will be working as a fiscal and policy analyst, with responsibility for a specific policy area or state program that is TBD

Jung Eun Kim is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong.

Tian Tang is a joint Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School in the Sustainability Science Program and the Energy Technology Innovation Policy project, a joint project of the Science Technology and Public Policy Program and the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

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